Yorn Sees Bardot in Scarlett

Singer records new album with Johansson
By Matt Cantor,  Newser Staff
Posted May 28, 2009 2:30 PM CDT
Yorn Sees Bardot in Scarlett
Pete Yorn performs during the second day at Lollapalooza on August 4, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois.    (Getty Images)

Scarlett Johansson is the new Brigitte Bardot, says Pete Yorn, who enlisted the actress to join him on an upcoming album. A dream moved him to echo the 1960s collaborations of Serge Gainsbourg and Bardot, the singer-songwriter tells Rolling Stone. “So who is Brigitte Bardot?” Yorn says he asked himself. “And I was like, Scarlett Johansson could be the Brigitte Bardot type.”
(More Scarlett Johansson stories.)

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